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LeBron James made history Tuesday night during the Cleveland Cavaliers road game against the Detroit Pistons. In the second quarter, James made a behind-the-back assist on a 3-pointer scored by Kevin Love. The play resulted in James’s 6,136th assists in his career, which moved him past Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen for the 27th most assists by a player in NBA history. Now, James also has the most assists by any forward in NBA history. He entered the game just four assists behind Pippen. What makes the accomplishment even more impressive is that James was able to pass Pippen in just 890 games, which is than 288 fewer than the former Chicago Bulls legend. James finished...

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LeBron James made history Tuesday night during the Cleveland Cavaliers road game against the Detroit Pistons. In the second quarter, James made a behind-the-back assist on a 3-pointer scored by Kevin Love. The play resulted in James’s 6,136th assists in...

He has faced the Chicago Bulls as a Cleveland Cavalier in Cleveland. And he has faced the Bulls as a member of the Miami Heat at AmericanAirlines Arena.
But Sunday at the United Center will be different.
Luol Deng will be going back home. For the...

NBA great Scottie Pippen isn't scoring as well in the real estate market.
In September 2007, Pippen listed his 10,000-square-foot Fort Lauderdale mansion for sale at just a hair under $15 million.
Almost eight years later, Pippen's palace is still...

Cliché all you want about the team game, but the NBA, at its highest level, very much can be a singular equation, one player making all the difference.
So on July 11, when LeBron James said he was coming home, as Cleveland exulted, the question...

Nearly seven years later, Scottie Pippen, the former Chicago Bulls star, is still trying to sell his Fort Lauderdale mansion.
The asking price for the six-bedroom estate at 2571 Del Lago Drive is $11.8 million. It has 215 feet of water frontage, a spa,...

TORONTO — Michael Jordan never experienced it. Neither did Scottie Pippen. Not even Phil Jackson accomplished the feat.
With their 116-103 victory over the Raptors Wednesday night at Air Canada Centre, the Bulls guaranteed their fifth straight winning...

The Bulls scratched Joakim Noah before Monday's game with what the team called "general soreness." In reality, it's a precautionary move since the uber-important center had his left knee surgically repaired last May.
Noah, the subject of a...

About the only thing as consistent as coach Tom Thibodeau's praise for Doug McDermott has been the first-round acquisition's inactivity.
McDermott has missed 24 games to arthroscopic right knee surgery and 11 to coach's decision. But injuries to...

CLEVELAND Kyrie Irving returned from a shoulder injury to score 18 points, LeBron James scored 27 points and the Cavaliers hammered the Boston Celtics 110-79 on Tuesday. James moved past Ray Allen and into 21st place on the NBA's all-time scoring...

NEW YORK — Kyle Korver is a first-time All-Star.
Think about that for a second: In his 12th season, turning 34 next month, the former Bulls guard is getting better as his career progresses.
"It's really amazing," Korver said. "I've...

NEW YORK — Pau Gasol sat in a chair behind a table surrounded by people holding microphones, cameras and recorders. Questions were shouted to him in English and Spanish, demanding instantaneous eloquence.
In some regards, Friday could have been like many...

Before Derrick Rose turned Thursday night's 113-98 victory over the Cavaliers into his own personal All-Star Game, the teammates who will represent the Bulls at the annual extravaganza stood proudly at midcourt.
Jimmy Butler, dressed in white slacks...

Instead of showing off his skills Saturday night, Jimmy Butler likely will be rehabbing his strained right shoulder.
That's Butler's plan for most of All-Star weekend, which is why the first-time All-Star dropped out of Saturday's Skills Challenge. He...

This has been a strange Bulls season, which began with legitimate championship aspirations. At times, they have lived up to those, beating other powers and posting a 17-8 road mark as their six-game trip continues Wednesday in Houston. Other times? Not so...

LOS ANGELES — Several times over the years, Tom Thibodeau has reminded all how Tim Duncan averaged nearly 40 minutes in his first six seasons with the Spurs. He did it again Tuesday night before the Bulls' overtime victory over the Warriors.
Thibodeau...

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Deng, facing his former team for the third time but the first in...

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Who said there aren't meaningful regular-season games in the NBA's dog days of January?
"There's this thing where people overlook practice, they overlook the regular season; 'The home court's not that important,'" Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau...

The Bulls are 11-7 in Christmas Day games in franchise history.
Here, in chronological order, are the Tribune’s nominations for the five most memorable games. Proving how difficult this selection process became, the 1993 and 1994 vintages got lumped...